Fox premiered a new show last night after the Simpsons. Very artistic and well written which kinda reminded me of a mix of Daria and Mission Hill.

on 4-19-2009 Family guy does it again. A singing and opera like performance at first promoting marijuana use then taking it away for Brians Oprah book club deal. A very educational look at how hemp and smokable marijuana differ. All in all a classic family guy episode to celebrate 4/20 on 4:20. enjoy

I always thought that using a debit vs. a credit card was the same thing, other than that it takes the funds directly out of your checking account. I mean, the card looks like a credit card, it’s a MasterCard or Visa, has 16 numbers, etc.

Big difference is:

When you use a credit card to make a purchase, if it turns out that you are unsatisfied, or if something goes wrong that makes you feel you got ripped off or that the vendor did not deliver their end of the transaction as promised, you can contest the charges and your credit card company will investigate the dispute. If they find that your evidence supports your allegation, they will reverse the payment from the vendor and return your money.

Ive done this a couple times- once for example, when I bought a plane ticket to meet some musician friends on tour in Europe. They had a tight tour schedule and I was planning on hooking up with them at one of their stops. Well, the flight was canceled for some reason, and the soonest they could put me on another plane was the next day- at which point my friends would be long gone and my flight to that destination was no longer relevant. The airline refused to refund my ticket. I went through my credit card company and they got me my money back.

With a debit/check card, you can’t do this, because it’s the same thing as writing a check. Once that money exchanges hands, any disputes over your purchase would have to be done through small claims or the better business bureau.

Think about this the next time you pay for something like a car repair or a service, or an expensive piece of mail-order merchandise. If you think there’s even a remote chance you could get screwed, or if the vendor is in Iowa or something and too far away for legal action, always use a credit card vs. a Debit/check card.

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Excellent video on open mindedness and its rights and wrongs…

The Bible must be either 100% true or 100% false.
The Bible says the Earth is was created by God in 4004 BC.

Ten Commandments of Evolution/Atheism:
Thou shalt have no theories before me, for they are pseudoscience.
Thou shalt be sexy and pass on thy genes to thy species, but not to thine immediate nor extended family.
Thou shalt adapt and overcome problems.
Thou shalt live in harmony with thy fellow beings.
Thou shalt not overproduce.
Thou shalt not genocide other creatures.
Thou shalt be intelligent and not gullible.
Thou shalt live only a short time, and better creatures shall take thy place.
Thou shalt spread throughout the universe.
Thou shalt not make the world inhospitable for other creatures.

“Otzi was frozen 5,300 years ago and he was found in an unprecedented conservation state for its age. Researchers took 150,000 high definition images from 12 different angles, including 3D and UV views.” (icemanphotoscan.eu)

Ötzi the Iceman (pronounced  [ˈœtsi] (help·info)), and Similaun Man are modern names of a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC (53 centuries ago).[1] The mummy was found in 1991 in the Schnalstal glacier in the Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. The nickname comes from Ötztal (Ötz valley), the region in which he was discovered. He is Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, and has offered an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic (Copper Age) Europeans. The body and his belongings are displayed in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, northern Italy.

Joe the Multi-Faceted Hat-Wearer puts on his "Writin’ Hat" to sign autographs last night at a Borders in DC, where "about 11 people wandered into the rows of seats set up hopefully in the basement" who he addressed "from behind a lectern and with a microphone … that seemed unnecessarily formal."

Never have I longed to be in DC so much as reading about this splendid event:

The only heat generated by Joe’s appearance last night came when a young man named Jabari Zakiya recounted great moments in American racism (slavery, annihilation of Native Americans, segregation, etc.) and asked Wurzelbacher if the "hegemony" of the white man in America is "doomed" now that five states and the District of Columbia have majority minority populations.
Joe replied that he believes "our American heritage is being torn apart" by flag burners, critics of the military, and those who mock Christian values. He expressed his admiration for patriotic immigrants, and said he dislikes terms like African American and Asian American ("We’re all Americans," he said). For some reason, he concluded by saying, "America has always been a kick-butt, take-names kind of country."

Wow.
The event was scheduled to last three hours, but ended after 55 minutes, with Joe having sold a total of five books.

from: Alternet

Its just hard to feel sorry for this guy, on TV he looks so confident, then he opens his mouth, he’s just another media joke….

We all know the impact that the current economic slowdown has had on Circuit City, but the question over what ultimate impact Circuit City’s collapse will have on the economy will take a little longer to figure out. One thing is for sure, the company’s collapse could not have come at a worse time for the overall economy.

The first ripple that the market is going to feel is the vacancies that the company is going to leave in its wake after closing its doors. The company was operating 567 stores at the time it announced it was going under, and these stores represented a total square footage of 18.71 million square feet.

The real estate market is fragile enough at this time, and adding this much unused property to the mix is not going to help things out. Shopping centers that are already feeling the impact of a slowdown in consumer spending are going to be hit with less rental income at a time when every penny counts.

But the ripple effect is only beginning at this point.
The country is dealing with a sharp rise in unemployment over the past year, and Circuit City is about to unleash a massive amount of workers into an already fragile workforce. The company employed roughly 40,000 workers that are going to be looking for new work, and this is on top of an additional 7,000 employees that the company was forced to lay off during 2008.
What impact will all these workers losing their jobs have on the economy is tough to say. We already know that they are increasing an already rising unemployment situation, but it goes deeper than that. What percentage of these people are going to find themselves behind on their bills, mortgages, credit cards, etc.? This would create even further pressure on the housing market and the credit markets.
The company’s suppliers are also going to take a hit. Companies such as Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Samsung and Sony (NYSE: SNE) are just a few that will find it hard to collect monies owed to them. The company owes Hewlett Packard $120 million, Samasung $115 million and Sony $60 million. While these companies are big enough and diverse enough to deal with these losses, all of these companies have been dealing with tough times of their own, and this will definitely not help the situation. continued at BloggingStocks.

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